DragonFae
Oh F.M....that is a good point but I was looking at it from the aspects of oracles not faery in generally...but EXCELLENT point!!!
Le Fanu said:Having said that, I have the same problem a lot of people have had with the Fairy Ring. I just get really scaremongering readings with it. If I believed what the Fairy Ring told me, I'd have lost my job, my house and probably had a car accident a long time ago.
Le Fanu said:I have this and the Fairy Ring Oracle and I'm not into fairies especially, but I think the Froud Oracle is very much the product of one man's imagination. I don't feel that this is how the fairies look, but how they are in his imagination. The Fairy Ring is much more linked to the fairy lore of the land which has been handed down from generation to generation. I actually prefer the Fairy Ring more because of the excellent book and the fact that the thinking behind it is based on "facts" and regional legends. The Froud Fairy Oracle is a vision of fairydom very much based on his (Brian's) own particular vision.
SunChariot said:I just got the Faeries Oracle this week, and I fell instantly in love with it.
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The deck seems to give me something my others (I have 12 now) don't, something I seemed to need but didn't recognize it till I saw it. I use Tarot to read for myself 99% of the time, for self-exploration, enlightenment, to draw me closer to the universe everyone in it....This deck seems to me to have a great sense of humour. It seems to encourage laughter, which is something we can always use in life.
And it may sound strange, but the cards (the faeries on them) often seem to represent pyschological traits we may have in us, like jeolousy...I find it could be helpful to somehow put an image to them and see them as something apart from ourselves so we could deal with them rationally as such. And his books do tell you how to deal with these characters/traits/faeires both the positive and the negative effectively. How to send the negative ones packing and embrace the positive ones.
According to the author in Good Faeries/Bad Faeries:
"In early Greece, the Neoplatists wrote of the Anima Mundi (or world's soul), which mediates between the ultimate divininty adn the mundane sensory world--just as the human soul mediates between the body and the spirit. ...The human soul flows into and is part of the world soul: there is no barrier between our essential selves and teh world's self. Faeries, being denizens of the world's soul and thus also of our own, exist in both the outer world of nature and the inner world of the mind. "
I somehow have a sense that this will not soon become my favourite deck.